People

Program: Biochemistry

Graduation Year: 2008

Thesis Advisor: Garland R. Marshall

Thesis Title: Mimicking Reverse Turns with Cyclic Tetrapeptides

Program: Immunology

Graduation Year: 2006

Thesis Advisor: John H. Russell

Thesis Title: Regulation of CNS Inflammation and Pathogenesis by Antigen Presentation and Chemokines

Program: Molecular Cell Biology

Current advisor: David Kast, PhD

Undergraduate university: University of Notre Dame, 2022

Program: Immunology

Current advisor: Michael S. Diamond, MD, PhD

Undergraduate university: University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign, 2024

Program: Neural Sciences

Graduation Year: 1983

Thesis Advisor: Mary M. Johnson

Thesis Title: "Neurite Extension in Tissue Culture: An Analysis of Growth Kinetics and the Conformation and Motility of Browth Cones"

Program: Neural Sciences

Graduation Year: 1980

Thesis Advisor: Nigel N. Daw

Thesis Title: "Effects of Cholinergic Drugs on Receptive Field Properties of Rabbit Retinal Gangion Cells"

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Graduation Year: 2014

Thesis Advisor: Petra A. Levin

Thesis Title: Failsafe mechanisms couple cell division to DNA replication in bacteria

Program: Genetics

Graduation Year: 1998

Thesis Advisor: Paul J. Goodfellow

Thesis Title: Identifying and Cloning an Endometrial Cancer Deletion Region on Chromosome 1p32-33

Program affiliation
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Neurosciences
Molecular Cell Biology

Research summary
The Arnold Lab studies the molecular mechanisms underlying neuronal loss in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), frontotemporal dementia (FTD), and other TDP-43 proteinopathies, as well as identifying new biomarkers and therapeutic targets for these disorders.

Key words
neurodegeneration, ALS, neuromuscular, RNA, transcriptomics, biomarker

Program: Neurosciences

Graduation Year: 2013

Thesis Advisor: Timothy E. Holy

Thesis Title: Concentration coding in the accessory olfactory system